Re:Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift and Twitch for Games on AWS
by scrollaway on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @07:03AM
(#11064721)
The pricing is really good. The licensing terms are awful, but $1.50 for 1k daily active users is nothing.
Three use cases to consider.
Subscription-based games (eg. MMOs), averaging $11 / month. Worst case scenario (all your users are active daily), that's less than 0.02% of your income going to the engine.
Freemium/microtransaction games. Considering $1.50 is somewhere between 1/10th of a transaction to 10 microtransactions depending on the game, you need roughly an extra 1-100 microtransactions per 10k daily-active users to cover the cost. That's nothing.
Ad-based games... 1000 users should be worth more than $1.50. That's not gonna happen, why would you use this.
Three use cases to consider.
Subscription-based games (eg. MMOs), averaging $11 / month. Worst case scenario (all your users are active daily), that's less than 0.02% of your income going to the engine.
Freemium/microtransaction games. Considering $1.50 is somewhere between 1/10th of a transaction to 10 microtransactions depending on the game, you need roughly an extra 1-100 microtransactions per 10k daily-active users to cover the cost. That's nothing.
Ad-based games... 1000 users should be worth more than $1.50. That's not gonna happen, why would you use this.